Reel Projections Podcast: Episode 4
(Recorded 12/30/08) In this episode, Joe and Sal review the top films of the year. Download.
Easy cocktail weenie appetizers for your next shindig
Cocktail weenies, mini sausages, Lil' Smokies — whatever you like to call them they make the perfect party appetizer. Whether you're going for a more rustic, classic-style menu or taking a more gourmet approach, the possibilities with this bite-sized pork wonder are endless.
A South Florida look at the Confederate Flag controversy
This week, we named the ginormous Confederate flag at I-4 and I-75 as one of the Top 10 Stories of the Year. Got some flack for it, too, along with columnist Daniel Ruth. Here's an interesting take from a writer at the Miami New Times, another alt-weekly: This whole idea of succession is kind of inspiring though. Not that…
The 12 Days of New Years: Plan-Ahead Party Guide, Day 12
The final featured event in our planner series is the biggest NYE bash in the Bay. First Night The Bay area’s booze-free NYE extravaganza takes over the streets of downtown St. Pete for its 16th year in a row. All manner of family-friendly diversions abound — art- and mask-making activities for kids, ghost tours, zydeco…
Quick and easy Marshmallow Snowmen
Ok y'all, I know that Christmas is over, but Winter (or our sunny excuse for one) is still going strong. After running around like chickens with our heads cut off trying to finish our pre- and post-holiday activities, you probably don't want to spend 4 1/2 hours baking these sugar cookies. But surely you have…
Reel Projections, Tuesday December 30
The New York Times is reporting that 20th Century Fox will try to delay the release of Watchmen. Deadline Hollywood Daily has a statement from Warner Bros. on the lawsuit. This week's DVD releases: Rope of Silicon runs down Paramount's new Blu-Ray titles, including the Patrick Swayze stupid-face fest, Ghost; Tom Cruise going vroom vroom…
Old people can’t find jobs
Hey, if you think it's hard finding a job now, try being old. According to a report by AARP, seniors have seen a 70 percent increase in unemployment over the last year. Despite decades of experience, the report says, the elderly can't find gigs. A story from 10connects.com quotes an AARP spokesman: "When people are…
CIA newest weapon in the War on Terror lifts, uh, spirits
What's the newest tactic the U.S. is using to gain converts in the War on Terror? Not waterboarding — that's old news. Bombing weddings? Oh, that's sooo 2002. And blasting Britney Spears is just tacky. No, the newest arsenal the CIA is using to persuade rogue nations to turn in terrorists is none other than…
Heard of Jamaican stout? Let this otter introduce you.
Otter Creek Otter Mon Jamaican Style Stout Vermont, ABV ? I feel compelled to experience all the goodness beer has to offer, from near ethereal to utter schlock. I tend to seek out vintage, extreme, or limited brews; the fleeting moments of beer-making. Enter the Otter Creek World Tour, a series of one time releases…
Florida AG announces an animal fighting tip line
Think there's a Michael Vick living next door to you? Have you noticed roosters with spikes on their feet coming from your Ybor City neighbor's house? Well, the state of Florida now has an animal fighting tip line, and it could net you a handsome reward. From the Florida Attorney General's press release: Attorney General…
Continuing a ‘green’ Christmas with free tree removal
A few weeks ago, Wayne Garcia gave you a ton of ideas for how to celebrate Christmas in an environmentally-responsible way. Well, even though the gift-giving has stopped, it doesn't mean you have to stop conserving. Hillsborough County is offering free Christmas tree pick-up in front of your house or at other various locations. Then,…
The Short List: Sarah Palin is one hot grandma
With both 2008 and the Bush presidency slowly drawing to a close, here is Letterman's top 10 George W. Bush moments. GMAC gets an infusion of federal cash. Grandma Sarah Palin. You know, Caroline Kennedy, you know, made a, you know, gaffe. Jaw-dropping: "Republican Party reaction is divided over the decision of a candidate for…
Trucks and Tedeschi delight at Tampa Theatre
No matter how hard we might try, family gatherings and holiday season don't always add up to joyous — or even peaceful — experiences. But when the Trucks clan joined forces for their Soul Stew Revival bash at Tampa Theatre on Monday, a near capacity crowd of around 1,400 witnessed domestic bliss at its finest.…
The portable polygraph test
Have you ever wondered if your significant other was lying to you over the phone? Or if your parents really did send your Christmas gift in the mail over a month ago? How about figuring out whether that kid across the street really did egg your house on Halloween? What if there was a way…
No show but plenty of drama
The concert at the Hall with Obie Trice never happened. Mr. Trice canceled on the morning of the show because supposedly his house was raided by law enforcement and he was being detained for questioning. If that smells like Motown manure to you too then congratulations! You’re not gullible either. He didn’t get arrested. I’d…
Trumpet great Freddie Hubbard dies at age 70
I met Freddie Hubbard many years ago backstage at the Clearwater Jazz Holiday. A few people warned me that he could be an asshole. He was a sweetheart. Hubbard was a brassy, fiery player who performed on seminal avant-garde recordings by Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane, as well as his own, commercially-oriented albums for CTI…
Musical gifts abound at the annual New Granada Xmas Show
Hankshaw & Friends The annual New Granada Christmas Show at New World Brewery featuring King of Spain, Davey von Bohlen, Hankshaw and Jarvik 7 was a splendid night of reunions with a grand soundtrack. The show has a reputation for unique elements (including in past years the reunions of Scrog, Pohgoh and appearances by elusive bands…
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Back in black? Retro-style blaxploitation flick premieres at Sundance 2009
Back in the day, films like Shaft, Foxy Brown and Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song styled funkalicious jazzy soundtracks, tough black heroes and heroines and corrupt white cops and politicians. A new genre was born, both celebrating and exploiting black culture, targeting urban African-American audiences with its style and subject matter. Some of the best of…
Merriweather Post Pavilion leaks, buzz continues in earnest.
After several false starts, virus-laden downloads and out-of-control fan anticipation taken to weekend, and fans that were foaming at the mouth to listen are now foaming at the mouth while listening, soaking it up like a bunch of hipster sponges, IM'ing their friends about its greatness, about how "catchy" it is compared to their previous…
Imagine using a dead John Lennon in a 30-second ad spot
From the "Just Fuckin' Creepy" Dep't. here at CL Music, John Lennon pimps free laptops for the Third World:
The Short List: Bucs eliminated from the playoffs
As we close out the year, here's former NY Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress with an important message about gun safety. As the Israelis continue to pound Gaza, the death toll is piling up. Obama stimulus plan might not be a trillion after all. The Secret Service goes bonkers when the lights go out in…
The 12 Days of New Years: Plan-Ahead Party Guide, Days 10-11
The NYE event planning series is drawing to a close as the holiday fast approaches, but we have a few more events to bring to you yet. Today's include dazzling fireworks and belly laughs. Fireworks at Channelside See the Channelside fireworks display for free at midnight from the Channelside courtyard, sipping a drink at any…
Bucs bounce themselves out of the playoffs
Maybe the Bucs and their fans should view it as a merciful ending. This was a team going nowhere, even if the fates had come together and they made the playoffs. They didn't. The Bucs needed a win at home today against the 4-11 Oakland Raiders … and a win by the Philadelphia Eagles over…
Bay area concert announcements
Veteran guitar-playing songstress Bonnie Raitt (pictured at right) adds some Florida stops for her upcoming tour, including a show at Ruth Eckerd Hall. Sun., March 15, $59-$100, Clearwater. Combichrist, an industrial electro-metal fivesome from Atlanta, brings their tour to State Theatre in support of their forthcoming album, Today We Are All Demons. Wes Borland's Black…
Sundance, Slamdance and… Lapdance?
Alongside the main festival, several other smaller film festivals have grown up in Park City during Sundance – giving the film lover a wide range of choices for films ranging from no-budget oddities to unique and compelling gems that might otherwise go unseen. Festivals with names like X-dance (extreme sports films), Tromadance (look up Troma films if you…
Chrismukkah: A Collaboration Celebration
This week marks the collaboration celebration that is Chrismukkah: a combination of Christmas and Hanukkah for those, like I, with parents of different backgrounds. Chrismukkah is a term I recently heard, from watching an old episode of The O.C. Curiosity struck me and I did a quick google search to see what, if anything, would…
Video: Tampa’s J.C. Newman Cigar Co.
Video: CNN's John Zarrella reports on Tampa's J.C. Newman Cigar Co. WATCH. [flv]http://www.cnn.com/video/?JSONLINK=/video/us/2008/12/26/cigar.smoke.factory.cnn[/flv]
The 12 Days of New Years: A Plan-Ahead Party Guide, Day 9
Salute to Vienna This annual New Year's Even celebration is billed as "an evening inspired by the famous New Year’s concert in Vienna, with all the splendor, charm, inspiration and beauty of the music of Vienna’s ‘Waltz King,’ Johann Strauss, Jr.” Viennese maestro Gerhard Track conducts the Strauss Symphony of America with special guest soloists…
Steely Dan + Shogun = Steely Shodan
Undoubtedly, Japan's premier Steely Dan tribute band:
Honorable Mentions, another End-of-the-Year list
There are plenty of albums I listened to incessantly (or not so incessantly but still enjoyed) this past year that didn't make my top ten, but are still worthy enough of mention. I've also included a few I missed all together when they came out and am just now really digging on — there’s just…
WMNF celebrates 1968 in New Year’s Eve concert
The idea for WMNF’s next tribute show started with a friendly argument. “Last year, [station program director] Randy Wynne did a special on the Sixties Show making the case that 1967 was the greatest year ever in rock ’n’ roll,” says WMNF music director Lee “Flee” Courtney. “Then a week later the folks from the…
The critic as playwright: Mark Leib on preparing for a reading
In addition to being Creative Loafing's theater critic, I'm also a playwright (my first professional U.S. production was in 1980 at the American Repertory Theatre), and I'm about to embark on one of those experiences that makes playwriting so pleasing and nerve-wracking at the same time: an early exposure of a new play to an…
St. Pete homeless under attack
Hours after memorializing dead street people, a homeless man is viciously beaten.
Troubles at the zoo? No surprise.
Tampa officials just discovered Lex Salisbury’s mismanagement. But some zoo people have been crying alarms for years.
SPC unveils new Music Industry/Recording Arts Program
Does the idea of teaching yourself Pro Tools scare the bejeezus out of you? Take a deep breath. St. Petersburg college will get you through it in a classroom setting, taught by experts. And Pro Tools is just a small part of the college's new four-semester Music Industry/Recording Arts (MIRA) program that will be taught…
Pension freezes, newspaper buildings with no buyers
The Seattle Times plans to freeze the pensions of its nonunion employees, effective Feb. 6. This comes only days after announcing that those same nonunion workers must also take an unpaid week of leave to save the company money. Andrea James of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer covers the cutbacks, and includes this rather distressing bit of…
See who won $1000 (and hear them squeal)
Congratulations to the winners of our Shop Local + Shop Indie contest – Christina Hillenburg and Philip Benyola. They both won over $1000 in gift certificates to locally-owned and operated businesses, simply by pledging to spend $100 within the community (and not at big box retailers). See, it's that easy. For more contests, visit our CL…
Reel Projections, Friday December 26
I had every intention of seeing Valkyrie at the Regal Park Place Stadium 16 last night, but the 7:50 show was sold out. Although Valkyrie has received middling reviews, I still want to see it, a desire I can attribute to three reasons: 1. Tom Cruise (so intense, so watchable,) 2. It was directed by…
The 12 Days of New Years: A Plan-Ahead Party Guide, Days 7 and 8
The latest recommended events in our planner series. Seminole Hard Rock New Year’s Celebrations The casino hosts promotions, live entertainment, free party favors and a champagne toast and balloon drop at midnight at the Center Bar, a “Naughty New Year’s Party by the Pool,” and the “West Coast Toast” at Floyd’s, a live broadcast of…
The Christians and the Pagans
Last night my sister and I shirked our familial responsibilities and boldly ventured out to forge our own, radical and new set of Christmas Eve traditions. After about 30 minutes of giggling and smug, self-congratulatory back-patting, we realized we couldn't think of anything more edgy and transgressive to do than go to a Unitarian Universalist church service and then to the Bonefish Grill by my…
Reel Projections, Thursday December 25
Merry Christmas! Let's see what Santa has in his sack for you, hmm … Tron is back! Bruce Boxleitner, the original Tron, has been added to the cast of Tron 2. The Eddie Murphy-as-Riddler story will not go away. Why? Because U.K. Sun reporter Gordon Smart, who delivered this inconceivable bit of casting news, has…
Reel Projections, Watchmen breaking news
The New York Times is reporting that a federal judge in Los Angeles has ruled in favor of 20th Century Fox's claim to the rights to Watchmen, which is a Warner Bros. production. This is big news, as Watchmen has been one of the most eagerly awaited movies of 2009. With the film scheduled to…
GateHouse Media takes on the New York Times Company
A commenter on this blog tipped me off to GateHouse Media's lawsuit against the New York Times Company for what amounts to copyright infringement — taking headlines and ledes verbatim from GateHouse's Wicked Local sites and publishing them on Boston.com's Your Town sites. (The New York Times owns The Boston Globe and Boston.com.) Well, just…
Newspapers adjust to economy by sharing content
The Washington Post and Baltimore Sun are dealing with their smaller newsrooms by pooling resources and sharing coverage. This is significant, because they are using their respective staffs to do the actual news gathering and reporting, not just aggregation. It's part of an increasingly popular trend: In the last few months, papers around the country…
The 12 Days of New Years: A Plan-Ahead Party Guide, Day 6
Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center New Year's Eve Party Looking for something to do on New Year's Eve and you also happen to want to see Spring Awakening (picture by Joan Marcus)? A NYE presentation of the Tony Award-winning musical begins at 7:30 p.m. at TBPAC. In-venue restaurant Maestro’s offers a NYE dinner package with…
The New York Times food section roundup
This week's New York Times food section, all wrapped up. Kim Severson says Obama might be a foodie. Wine critic Eric Asimov suggests a few inexpensive bubblies for NYE. Julie Scelfo writes about how the FDA ia reconsidering the plastic bottle risk. Steven Stern wallows in nostalgia for punch. Pete Wells pays homage to bacon.…
Reel Projections, Wednesday December 24
As St. Pete Times media critic worthy of the honor. If you've been following Reel Projections for the past few weeks, you know that every few days, another critics' organization has issued its best-of picks for 2008. Not me. Instead, I thought I'd give a tip of the cap to those critics who toiled in…
Thank you law enforcement
Anybody else see the speed trap on the Pinellas side of the Howard Frankland heading into Tampa this morning? At 10:15 a.m., at least two cruisers and three motorcycle cops (I was going far too fast to get an accurate count) were pulling over their fellow citizens and issuing them lovely anti-gifts in the form…
The Obama diet and the meaning of Spam
Obama may be making foodies salivate, but probably not because of his choice of luncheon meat. Still, his taste for Spam may be the ultimate challenge to all those Muslim rumors.
The Short List: Obama transition team clears itself
Twas the day before Christmas and all through the Short List, not a video was playing except for Robert Smigel's great reworking of a holiday classic. On a side note: I'm all for everyone celebrating whatever holiday floats their boat. I happen to celebrate Christmas*, so I'll be back Friday. Happy holidays everyone. An internal…
The top 10 plays of 2008
Bay area theater just gets better and better: freeFall Theatre's arrival brought a stunning production to The Studio@620, and just about every other company, from American Stage to Hat Trick, had at least one four-star show sometime during the year. Here's a recap of 2008's very best: if you saw even half of these, you…
Sports: Outback Bowl 2009
The next Bay area post-season college football game is the 23rd annual Outback Bowl, a New Year’s Day tradition featuring the best teams from the SEC and Big Ten Conference: University of Iowa and University of South Carolina. A pre-game pep rally with live music begins at 8 a.m. in the south plaza outside Raymond…
The Reader and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The holiday season: a time for family, friends, and the Third Reich. Just before Thanksgiving, the Gene Siskel Film Center presented the Chicago premiere of Amos Gitai’s One Day You’ll Understand, in which a middle-aged businessman wonders what role his mother might have played in the deaths of her Jewish parents during the Holocaust. A…
Theater: Cats
“Memory” is a beautiful song. T.S. Eliot was a fine poet. Cats are cute. But people running around in cat-shaped underwear and shag-rug wigs mangling T.S. Eliot poetry to music that is not “Memory,” but just Andrew Lloyd Webber noodling around? That’s not beautiful, or fine, or cute. It’s excruciating. It’s The Musical That Will…
Theater: Spring Awakening
The latest rock musical to take Broadway by storm and sweep the Tony Awards with 11 nominations and eight wins, Spring Awakening, makes its way to Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center this week. Based on the 1891 banned-from-the-stage German play of the same name by Frank Wedekind, the musical follows a group of sexually-repressed teens…
Film: Arsenic & Old Lace
New York theater critic Mortimer Brewster has problems. He’s given up his confirmed bachelorhood and conquered his commitment issues to wed his lovely sweetheart only to find that all his living family members are mental cases, most with homicidal tendencies. His two spinster aunts have been boarding lonely old men and poisoning them with arsenic-laced…
Theater: Defending the Caveman
Michal Van Osch stars in the current touring production of comic Rob Becker's one-man show, Defending the Caveman, which offers insight (from a man’s point-of-view) on the battle of the sexes. Using humor and his informal studies of anthropology, prehistory, psychology, sociology and mythology, Becker sheds a tiny ray of light on men and women’s…
Last call: Tatangelo bids farewell
Thanks to everyone who followed my alcohol-soaked adventures, suffered through my smart-ass guidance and took pleasure in reading about my reckless ways. I wore several hats at Creative Loafing — staff writer, music critic, music website co-editor, office loudmouth — but my favorite role was Bar Tab author. As you might have already heard, CL…
The top 10 ways Tampa Bay can catch up with culinary trends
The Bay area’s dining scene can be pretty exciting, especially with all the hole-in-the-wall ethnic options that Tampa and St. Pete offer. So why are we always neglected whenever a Top 10 or Featured City spot hits the national glossy magazines?No matter how good our restaurants are, we’re not innovators. We’re behind on the trends.…
Eric’s top 10 CDs of 2008
I've written different variations of the following caveat for years, but I think it establishes an important distinction: The following is a list of my favorite albums of 2008. This is not to be confused with what's important or hip or widely acclaimed by the critical community. If some of the titles below happen to…
Special Events: Tampa Job Finders Network
The melancholy of unemployment got you down? A new community gathering for job seekers, Tampa Job Finders Network, gives the occupationally-challenged a chance to get resume tips, develop extra job hunting skills, prep for interviews and job fairs, and network and connect with other folks similarly affected by the adverse economy. This week, USF College…
Music: New Granada Xmas Night Extravaganza
While dust bunnies skitter pass scores of venues closed for the holiday, New Granada stages its annual Xmas Night Extravaganza, a jam-packed show featuring three quality local acts – Tampa’s re-imagined pop-something foursome Hankshaw, darkly melodic five-piece Jarvik 7, and multi-instrumentalist Matt Slate’s solo project, King of Spain – and a special one-off solo acoustic…
Creative Loafing gets the layoffs blues
This being the Top 10 Issue and all, and Creative Loafing having recently made an announcement about staff changes (aka layoffs), it seemed only right to do a list of the Top 10 Reasons Layoffs Suck. A few came to mind right away. For instance: Friends of the laid-off making pompous online comments about the…
A Half-Dozen Overhyped Stories from 2008
We gave you our Top 10 news stories of the year, but we doubt that all of those would end up on the most Googled list. The mainstream media’s fascination with the rumored and trivial knows no end, and so here is our list of the top overhyped stories of 2008. 1. Charlie Crist marries:…
Special Events/Workshop: World Hypnotism Day
Close your eyes. You’re getting very sleepy. You can hear nothing but the sound of my voice. When I snap my fingers, you will be in Palm Harbor, attending a workshop that coincides with World Hypnotism Day, a worldwide campaign for benefits of hypnosis. Debbie Lane, 2007 International Hypnotist of the Year, is on hand…
Wade’s top 10 CDs of 2008
1. Lucinda Williams: Little Honey (Lost Highway). On Little Honey, alt-country queen Lucinda Williams returns to the more focused, rock-oriented sonics of her breakthrough 1998 album Car Wheels on a Gravel Road. In doing so, she reveals a newfound sexual confidence (the title track) and celebrates domestic bliss ("Tears of Joy"). The singer/songwriter also manages…
Theater: The Flying Karamazov Brothers
The Flying Karamazov Brothers began in ‘73 as a troupe of buskers who juggled, played music, performed comedy skits and generally entertained passers-by on the streets corners of Santa Cruz, Calif. Busking for donations was eventually replaced by Renaissance fairs, then world tours and acclaimed Broadway runs. Today, the bros are an internationally-renowned group that…
Music/Dance: The Tamburitzans of Duquesne University
Made up of students who get scholarships for their activities, the Tamburitzans of Duquesne University is among the country’s longest-running multicultural music and dance troupes. A new production is staged each tour and features the folk-infused sights and sounds of Eastern Europe and its neighboring cultures, the performances marked by 400 or so vivid costumes,…
Art: Wilfredo Lam in North America
If you haven’t had a chance to check out the Salvador Dalí Museum’s latest exhibition, Wilfredo Lam in North America, this holiday week is as good a time as any. The exhibit includes a selection of paintings by the 20th-century Afro-Cuban artist, whose creative style was molded by his associations with Salvador Dalí (Lam studied…
Comedy: Paul Rodriguez
Mexican-American actor/comedian Paul Rodriguez has the sort of face that most of us recognize but have trouble remembering from where. He’s done television (a short-lived role as a struggling Hispanic stand-up comic in his own sitcom, aka Pablo, host of the late ‘80’s Newlywed Game and The Late Show on Fox, a recurring role in…
Taste the passion: The 10 best wines of 2008
Best of lists never grow old, as long as they are filled with passion. Here are the wines my mouth fell in love with in 2008, and why. Turkey Flat 2007 Rosé Barossa Valley (Australia)Consistency is key with wine, and these guys have it. Year after year, this rosé astounds me. 5/21/2008 review: "This refreshing…
Art: With a Little Help from Our Friends
The ’09 art season kicks off with a new show at Clay and Paper Inc., a studio and gallery owned and operated by cast paper artist Barbara Melby-Burhans and her husband, potter Ira Jon Burhans. With a Little Help from Our Friends celebrates Clay and Paper’s 25th anniversary via works by 25 of the duo’s…
Leilani’s top 10 albums of 2008
1. of Montreal: Skeletal Lamping (Polyvinyl) I've lauded this album to the moon and back, and I love it for the very reason it turns other people off — the quick and abrupt rhythm changes within the songs, the clever and suggestive lyrics, and the layers upon layers of rainbow-hued sonics. Kevin Barnes' refusal to…
Tampa Bay Bucs, Arnold Schwarzenneger, Caylee Anthony
Bloody Jeff GarciaThe perfect symbol for the Bucs’ season as the most irrelevant nine-win team. President Ahnold?The Govinator says if the Constitution were changed, he would love to be president. And if the script for Terminator 4 were punched up a bit, he’d love to play Sarah Connor. Blizzard blankets the northSunshine and high-70s blanket…
Rick Warren: Obama’s man
“If Obama continues to treat gay people this way, there will be big trouble. We’re tired of being treated this way!”—Huffington Post user FindlayDemocrat, responding to news that Pastor Rick Warren will deliver the invocation at Obama’s inauguration “This isn’t about Rick Warren, it’s about Obama not being the man you thought he was….”—USER alexpaul…
Sports: Tampa Hoops Classic
High school holiday basketball tournaments are simply great fun. You get to watch talented amateurs play ball without the pomp and glitz of the NBA experience (and at a fraction of the price). No, there aren’t marquee names to watch. Spectators show up for, as they say, the love of the game. The Tampa Hoops…
Theater: The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow
Hat Trick Theatre’s current show, The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, draws to a close this weekend. Rolin Jones' "techno-comedy" debuted in first 2003 and focuses on an agoraphobic, OCD-afflicted girl genius who creates a new form of human contact that allows her to track down and meet her birth mother without ever leaving her…
The Top 10 Tampa Bay news stories of 2008
It was not a good year for Tampa Bay, battered by a national recession that hit Florida hard and our own region even harder. At one point during the summer, we were second in the nation in job losses, and each click of the mouse brought a new study that showed us lagging in a…
Music: The Florida Orchestra and Five by Design present “Stay Tuned.”
The latest Raymond James Pops Concert brought to Bay area audiences by The Florida Orchestra is "Stay Tuned" starring Five by Design. The Minneapolis-based five-member vocal ensemble presents a TFO-backed program that pays homage to the early days of television, when Dinah Shore, Perry Como and Milton Berle filled the small screen with their variety…
Dance: Orlando Ballet presents The Nutcracker
Orlando Ballet brings its annual production of The Nutcracker to Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center. The full Tchaikovsky score is played live by the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, and professional dancers from the company perform with more than 100 children from the Patel Conservatory’s Orlando Ballet School. Tues., Dec. 23,2 and 7:30 p.m., Carol Morsani Hall-TBPAC,…
The year’s top 10 visual art exhibits
In identifying the year’s top 10 visual art exhibits, it was clear that 2008 was the year of the museum. Not the area’s grandest museums, per se — you won’t find St. Petersburg’s Museum of Fine Arts or the Salvador Dali Museum on this list. Though both institutions featured commendable exhibits throughout the year, neither…
Television: Rock of Love Bus with Bret Michaels
Poison frontman Bret Michaels has realized that he only enjoys a successful solo career when he has a television show to back him up. Add to this his acceptance of his own undeniable attraction to wild and wanton ladies, and you have yourself the Rock of Love Bus with Bret Michaels, a third season of…
Jobsite’s Jenkins: Ten years and counting
Jobsite Theater officially turned 10 years old last month, which we celebrated with Jobsite's Rockin' 10th Birthday Party at New World Brewery. The anniversary got me thinking. At the very beginning, this company was an experiment I was willing to go along with for a year. Considering my initial move back to Tampa was supposed…
